Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-04-21
COUNTY NEWS
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APRIL 18.-The quiet monotony of the
village Of Pettibone was broken by the
ASCENDING of Meyers. the second Van.
derbilt. He was running the steam saw
mill, also three or four sets of carpenter
hands and contracting for all the build
ings going up in reach of him, buying
all the cherry and walnut he could buy
on credit; and borrowed all the money
he could from parties around him but
did not pay of his hands; got most, if not
all. the money on his jobs Of carpenter
work, then borrowed a mule Of Alick
Smith. rode 1t to Jonesboro and sold it to
]. B. Fraker, Of Greeneville, and jumped
the country, leaving his creditors to re,
fleet over the past and wonder what il
in the future.
The night of the ed of April there
will be a concert at Green Shed, for the
benefit of the Sabbath school at tina
place, A good band will be ON hand and
a nice time is expected. Come one, come
all. Admittance ten cents.
A.. R. Brown, of High Health, John
son county, was in this section last week
visiting his mother and friends.
April 10. ]. E. Hale. Joseph Howard,
j. NJ. Good, s. X. Hartman and theil
wives were the guests of DR.. Smithpe-
tiers. All seemed to enjoy themselves
splendidly.
The h%eadwaters of Bleakly creek were
the scene of bloodshed on the 18th inst.
Moses Moore went to E. w. Keys's to get
a note that Keys held on Moore and his
son, which had been paid of by Moore
and which he held q receipt for. By
some means, words ensued In regard tc
the matter which resulted in Keys strik.
ing Moore on the head with q club, in,
ficting a rather severe wound. Some OK.
element prevailed for a few minutes, bu,
nothing serious outside of Mr.. Moore's
wounds.
The morning Of the 18th, near Petit.
bone, there were two fights. The parti.
cipants were WIN. Mathes, Gaines Maho.
ney and Frank McMakin. 1t seems tina,
Mathes went on to Mahoney about some
very improper talk, when o conflict en-
sued, McMakin taking 1t up for Mahoney
Things were getting pretty high wher
other parties got them separated and the
riot quashed. No one hurt bad. l would
suggest that she citizens of Pettibont
hold a muricip@ election and elect Rob
Conley Mayor With a full police force and
take the lunber still remaining on Moy.
crs's lumber yard and build q good Gala
boose, that order, peace and harmony
may prevail; but, until the above proiec,
goes into effect, parties wishing to traveI
up the creek should call on Mr.. Conley
and get o pass, have 1t examined by J. S.
Walker and j. G. Hartman, and then cal
on Drs, Basket and Hartman to see il
their physical ability will admit of them
going any farther.
The farmers are planting right along; {
large acreage Of spring oats has beer
sown.
Your correspondent, in company will
]. G. & H. N. Hartman made n lyin,
trip to Greeneville the 18th inst, and OF
the way we passed through the village O
Pettibone. The first thing that attracted
our attention was a new building at Mrs
Drucilla Furgerson's. The next wa.
VIM. Mathes's new barn. Passing on WI
noted the grand improvement on J. s
Mathes's dwelling house. A little far
ther on we came TO the new school house
at Pleasant Grove, which is q good build
ing, but we noticed that some one has al
most crowded it off Its corner stones with
a huge fence. We found the carpenters
busy in dressing the, lumber for James
Barley's house, which he is having com
pletely overhauled. The next we saw
worthy of note, was a splendid new latl
crib belonging to James Basket, and the
improvement on Shields Blair's residence,
He has added a new vcranda, and the
paint brush, welded by Billy Landreth,
makes 1t look like a new building. Soor
We found ourselves at the old stand Of
Samuel Brodrick, who has passed away,
and his store doors stand barred agains,
the commercial world.
When we struck the old stage road and
putting the bud to our team, soon came
to the Brabson property, which is owned
by three families, and is a fine large trac
of land. Here We saw some fine fields o.
wheat and acres Of grass and Glove
which speak Of good farming. AT Hon,
depot we noticed some new buildings, al
so, that the large stone mill belonging Il
Judge Patterson is as silent as a tomb
the large rolling mill doing tho work tina
this did in former days. Steadily press
Ing onward we reached Greencville at al
most dark, tnrned our stock over to BoreI
Fraker for the night, while we shared
the hospitality Of Captain Thomas Davi
and son. We noticed quito q number o.
good dwellings and business houses 60
ing up In G~reeneville. AS our time wa,
limited we did not take in the town.
W. O. Richards has helped the look
Of his place by putting up new palings.